Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-484) and index.
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The ABC's of altruism / Elliott Sober -- Pythagorean bodies and the body of altruism / Edith Wyschogrod -- Morality, altruism, and love / Jerome Kagan -- The tradition of agape / Stephen G. Post -- The human experience of compassionate love : conceptual mapping and data from selected studies / Lynn G. Underwood -- Addressing the altruism question experimentally / C. Daniel Batson -- Explicating altruism / Kristen Renwick Monroe -- Extraordinary acts of ordinary people : faces of heroism and altruism / Samuel P. Oliner -- A Darwinian naturalist's perspective on altruism / Michael Ruse -- Relating self, others, and sacrifice in the ordering of love / Stephen J. Pope -- The fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of altruism in evolutionary biology / David Sloan Wilson and Elliott Sober -- Some obstacles to altruism / Melvin Konner -- Emerging accounts of altruism : "love creation's final law"? / Jeffrey P. Schloss -- Implications for the neurobiology of love / Thomas R. Insel -- A note on the neurobiology of emotions / Antonio R. Damasio -- Impairment of interpersonal social behavior caused by acquired brain damage / Hanna Damasio -- The communication of emotions and the possibility of empathy in animals / Stephanie D. Preston and Frans B.M. de Waal -- Empathy, evolution, and altruism / William B. Hurlbut -- Science and religion on the nature of love / Don S. Browning -- Separation, attachment, and altruistic love : the evolutionary basis for medical caring / Gregory L. Fricchione -- Compassion out of wisdom : Buddhist perspectives from the past toward the human future / Ruben L.F. Habito.
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(Publisher-supplied data) The concept of altruism, or disinterested concern for another's welfare, has been discussed by everyone from theologians to psychologists to biologists. In this book, evolutionary, neurological, developmental, psychological, social, cultural, and religious aspects of altruistic behavior are examined. It is a collaborative examination of one of humanity's essential and defining characteristics by renowned researchers from various disciplines. Their integrative dialogue illustrates that altruistic behavior is a significant mode of expression that can be studied by various scholarly methods and understood from a variety of perspectives in both the humanities and the sciences. Altruism and Altruistic Love establishes a framework for scholarship on altruism by presenting definitions, a historical overview, a review of contemporary research, and debates in various disciplines, as well as a discussion of directions for future work.